We also recall, that the new Constitution, which is before us in the “conventions” named in the Seventh Article, is to be both a _national_ Constitution, constituting government of men, and a _federal_ Constitution, constituting government of states. And we recall that only one of the present Articles in that proposed Constitution, the First Article, constitutes government of men by granting government power to interfere with individual freedom. And we recall, with Hamilton in the Convention beside us, the probability that all future Articles in that dual Constitution, will probably be of the _federal_ or the declaratory kind which the existing ability of state legislatures can make. And so we understand why Madison and Hamilton, in their Fifth Article, mention that existing ability of the state legislatures to make Articles which do not relate to interference with individual freedom, as well as they mention our own exclusive ability, the ability of the “conventions” of the American people, to make Articles which do relate to interference with individual freedom. And, sitting in those conventions with the “people better acquainted with the science of government than any other people in the world,” when we read the language of the Fifth Article, it is impossible for us to make the monumental error of assuming that the mention of the two existing abilities adds anything to one or subtracts anything from the other. And so, with our minds in those “conventions” free from any possibility of such monumental error, we now read and clearly understand the most important words in the _constitutional_ mode of procedure for existing powers, which we know as the Fifth Article. To none of the Americans in those conventions is there any doubt, to no American, who understands what America is, can there ever be any doubt, what _are_ the most important words. They are the words “in three fourths thereof” immediately following the words which name the very kind of “conventions” in which we sit. These words, “by conventions in three fourths thereof,” bring home to us the marvel of what our “conventions” are doing. In them sit the people of America, possessors of the supreme will in America, assembled in their respective states, as free men and not as the citizens of the particular state in which each convention of Americans assembles.